Knabenakt auf dem Balkon. 1905.
Woodcut.
Gercken A-4. Dube H 9. Inscribed "K 199" by a hand other than that of the artist (supposably by Walter Kirchner, the artist's brother). On grayish machine-made laid paper. 5.5 x 4.9 cm (2.1 x 1.9 in). Sheet: 9,5 x 8 cm (3,7 x 3,1 in).
This could be a draft for an ex-libris for Kirchner's fellow artist Erich Heckel.
• One of the artist's earliest prints.
• A document of the cooperation between E. L. Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl and Erich Heckel a year before they founded the "Brücke".
• Shows the same model as Bleyl's and Heckel's watercolors "Freilichtakt" and "Badender Junge am Wasser" (both from 1904, Brücke-Museum Berlin).
• Only copy of this woodcut ever offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).

PROVENANCE: Presumably from the collection of Walter Kirchner (the artis's brother), Berlin.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032, acquired from the above, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, May 28/29, 1990).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Hans Wentzel, Unbekannte gebrauchsgraphische Arbeiten von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in: Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, Kunstchronik 21, Hamburg 1968, p. 144 (there still with the later date "1906").
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Municen, 150th auction, 19th and 20th Century, May 28/29, 1990, lot 228.
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 93, SHG no. 27 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 281, SHG no. 637 (with illu.).
Günther Gercken. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 7 (1903-1937, no. A-1-A-331), Bern 2021, cat. no. A-4 (with illu.).